Subject:—Propertius had tremblingly touched the mighty fount with his lips (l. 5): he dreamed that he essayed, in consequence, to follow the example of Ennius.
2 i.e. the Spring of Pirene near Corinth, where Pegasus was caught by Bellerophon. Its waters possessed inspiring properties.
4 nervis . . . meis = that I had strength to gasp forth.—Ramsay.
7 Curios = Curiatios.
Horatia pila: see [pp. 67-68].
8 Aemilia, i.e. of L. Aemilius Paullus (son of the hero of Cannae), victor at Pydna 168 B.C. over Perseus of Macedon.
10 versos . . . deos, i.e. the solemn ordinances decreed by Fabius, Dictator after Trasimene, to which the gods turned a ready ear (versos).
12 fuisse, dependent on cecini l. 7.
Iovem, i.e. Iovis Capitolini templum. See [p. 84].